9 Times Norway's Curling Team Won Gold In The Fashion Stakes

The team has a well-deserved reputation for the finest uniforms around.

By
The Editors

Jan 22, 2014

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The Norwegian mens curling team have debuted uniforms for the 2014 Winter Olympics and they are, in a word, geomazing. The zig-zag pattern, in the Norwegian flag's colors, comes courtesy of a men's golf fashion brand called Loudmouth, and that's also a wonderful way to describe the design. It's become a fun tradition for team Norway to push boundaries with their style — and help break the ice during pre-competition practices maybe, just without actually breaking any important ice in the arena. It all began back in 2010, at the Vancouver Games, with two important variations on Harlequin pants:

Then came these fabulous "Cotton Candy" pants, worn by team Norway's Thomas Ulsrud at a competition in Windsor, Canada:

Then the rest of the team joined in, in blue pants to match:

This is like fancy wallpaper, but on pants. Genius!

And this is the equivalent of a decadent tropical cocktail, but on pants. Also genius!Note: does need more cocktail umbrellas.

Repping the Norwegian flag:

And I mean these neon houndstooth pants are a wonder to behold. I LOVE THEM:

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And here's twomore (slightly blurry) examples of fabulous fashion again, courtesy of the very necessary Norwegian Olympic Curling Team's Pants Facebook page. (This being the very rare example of a Facebook page worth "liking." Those houndstooth pants, I mean, come on, they be styling.) And now we all know there's fashion stuff to be excited about even on the days when figure skating isn't happening at Sochi.